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While its not October yet, there's a really nice piece on the Guardian's book blog about Arthur Machen "the forgotten father of weird fiction."Its a brief post, but it points out some very true stuff. You can find Machen's infleunce all of over the horror genre, explicitly and implicitely. And he's certainly still read by academics studying fin-de ( Read more... )

I'm currently putting together a syllabus for an Intro to Lit class as part of my Practice in Teaching Literature class. Instead of putting together a simple straightforward "three genres" kind of Intro to literature class, I'm focuing on retellings and adaptation. Its a topic I find really fascinating and I think used properly it can function well ( Read more... )

I'm doing a brief oral presentation at the Graduate Student Research Symposium next month and in order to participate I had to turn a form in to the Graduate School, which is housed in the Behavioral Science building. I headed over there this afternoon, not entirely sure of where I was going, this being my first time in this particular building ( Read more... )

Something amusing I came across while doing school work. Wilde says the following of Niagara Falls:

Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
-Quoted in H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde.

pgtremblay recently posted his tweaked version of the 15 books meme. Instead of just books he limited it to short story collections, I'm tweaking it a little more and including collections edited by other people (still single author) posthumous and all that. You may also note that I share at least a couple with pgtremblay. So 15 short story collections that come to ( Read more... )

I finished the final polishing draft of Hallowed yesterday and have spent today doing random chores and attempting to write a synopsis of the novel. I'm not the only writer who complains about writing synopses, in fact I've never met anyone who finds them to be enjoyable, fufiling, or anything less than annoying. I've written a couple for longer ( Read more... )

A much overdue update. The summer has been spent, thus far, with summer school, now over, and moving to a new apartment, now complete. Erika and I left the East Diana Wildlife Preserve for digs that are less falling apart (and cheaper!)

I'm still working on getting Hallowed in shape for submission. I hope to do so before classes get underway ( Read more... )

Tonight was the Bram Stoker Awards, and the results have begun filtering across the interweb. I'm ecstatic to note that Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet won the Stoker for the anthology category! Congratulations are due to Vince and Chad for putting together such a great anthology. I continue to be honored to have published my ( Read more... )

I'm on a posting rampage it seems . . .

So today:

I had a meeting with the Graduate Director regarding the next year or so. I'm on track to finish coursework in the Spring and take my comps in the Fall of 2010. Then I went over to the local mall to finally see Drag Me To Hell. No extensive review here, just to say that it was fun, and had some ( Read more... )